Bug 201251
| Summary: | x11-fonts/noto: include Noto emoji | ||
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| Product: | Ports & Packages | Reporter: | Sascha Brawer <sascha> |
| Component: | Individual Port(s) | Assignee: | Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Many People | CC: | andrey, loox, w.schwarzenfeld |
| Priority: | --- | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
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Description
Sascha Brawer
2015-07-01 13:56:32 UTC
To increase the probability of response is probably to change the subject "x11-fonts/noto: Noto emoji" and add a copy (CC) of kevlo@FreeBSD.org which is listed as MAINTAINER this port. A commit references this bug: Author: kevlo Date: Thu Jul 2 03:26:11 UTC 2015 New revision: 391127 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/391127 Log: Include Noto emoji. PR: 201251 Submitted by: Sascha Brawer Changes: head/x11-fonts/noto/Makefile head/x11-fonts/noto/distinfo head/x11-fonts/noto/pkg-plist Added Noto emoj, thanks. Hello Kevin, have you noticed that the font needs to be built before getting packaged, using source code that is in the repo? I believe that right now, you've taken one of the input sources that is used for producing the actual font. (Sorry if I'm wrong, I'm not really familiar with BSD packaging). Perhaps we could offer a pre-built binary file upstream, as has been requested here? https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/issues/7 But personally, I'm not sure if this is such a great idea. Shipping binary fonts feels a little like shipping binary drivers, or pre-compiled code, without the sources. Obviously, the downside is that it makes life more painful for distributions. For example, it means that a distro like FreeBSD needs a C compiler, libcairo, python and other tools as part of the build chain when packaging the font file. The font is a bit special because of the colored flags, which we generate from SVG [also in the source repo]. From your perspective as package maintainers, what do you think -- would you rather build from source, or would you rather take a pre-built binary from upstream? By the way, do tell if our makefiles should change so that this becomes easier for downstream package maintainers. Feel free to send patches (GitHub pull requests), or file bugs: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/ By the way, sorry for not having a README file yet that explains this. You're sort of a guinea pig here. :-) <-- Emoji in ASCII -- Sascha Hi Sascha, Sorry I didn't notice that. If so, someone has to create another port. I tried building noto-emoji, but it seems it requires nototools [1]. Since nototools is not portable enough, I finally gave up on getting it to work... [1] https://github.com/googlei18n/nototools Hi Kevin, thanks for trying, and apologies for all the trouble! You said “nototools is not portable enough”; tell me, how should we change the nototools makefile (or anything else) so it would work better for you? For example, I was wondering if the noto-emoji package should perhaps pull in at least some of its build dependencies as git submodules. From your perspective as a maintainer of fonts packages, would this be a good or a bad idea? With the font in initial version of your FreeBSD package, you will probably see Emoji in black-and-white. Perhaps that's good enough for now, in case you're getting tired of wasting time on this one font. In case it helps, here's how I was testing how Emoji are handled on Debian: $ lynx -dump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji | grep 1F60x Note that when using lynx without -dump, the Emoji won't show up (at least on Debian). But I believe this is unrelated to the font, it seems to be a bug in lynx or ncurses: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2015-07/msg00007.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790847 Best, -- Sascha Hi Sascha, As I mentioned, someone else would like to create separate port noto-emoji. Sorry I really don't have time to do that. At this time noto-emoji fails to fetch from main site. => Attempting to fetch https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/raw/master/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf fetch: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/raw/master/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf: Not Found => Attempting to fetch http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf 100% of 431 kB 1045 kBps 00m01s Is there another place to fetch it? This seems to work: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/blob/master/fonts/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf?raw=true Cheers, — Sascha Maintainer reset. Feedback please, resp. is this still relevant? (In reply to w.schwarzenfeld from comment #11) > Feedback please, resp. is this still relevant? Doesn't look like it. Both x11-fonts/{noto,noto-lite} include Noto Emoji and both are fetchable. |
